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DotA Shift key Guide >>

DotA Shift key Guide

by dotainformation.blogspot.com

I. Introduction to the technique

II. Pros and Cons

III. How to shift queue?

IV. Techniques:

(IV.I) Tower Technique

(IV.II) Tango Juking Technique/Rune Bottle Pickup Technique

(IV.III Shift-Queuing Items

(IV.IV) Pudge Force Staff Trick

V. Conclusion and Credits

I. Inroduction to the technique

Shift-Queue is a function of Warcraft 3. It allows to you ‘queue’ actions in sequence. Shift-Queuing allows you to do actions lightning fast – Within a second almost, or less. Learning Shift-Queuing will allow you the advantage of quicker actions over your opponents. This technique can give you monstrous advantage when playing heroes like Tinker and Invoker especially, but it works will all heroes. Imagine a situation, you are playing as Kardel the Sniper and you are happily farming in the bottom lane. Suddenly, you see a Tinker teleporting to your lane via a creep (It is obvious he is teleporting through his Boots of Travel). You turn around to run, but resistance is futile. As soon as his teleport finishes, you see him hexing you, blinking to your side, using missile, dagon, laser and march – all within a split second and you couldn’t even blink your eye!

Now, THIS is what Shift-Queuing is. A lot of people were asking me how I use this technique is various forms. So I decided I would make a guide to help them out. This guide is dedicated to you guys. I hope you enjoy.

II. Pros and Cons

Pros:

[+] Gives you a huge advance in the game in form of quick actions.

[+] Enhances your juking skills to a next level.

[+] Makes you look ‘pro’.

Cons:

[-] Takes a good amount of time to get used to.

[-] Shift-queuing can sometimes mess things up if you queued a wrong action in some place.

[-] You cannot remove an action from somewhere in the sequence, you will have to do the whole sequence again.

For example: I am tinker, I teleport to my tower which is being destroyed. I shift queue dagon on a hero and then shift queue blink to a safe place. But as soon they see my coming, they all decide to back off. But as you know, I have already queued all my actions. So, what happens will be like this – your hero will move in one direction and look for the hero you shift-dagon’ed on. If you don’t find him, you will keep moving, well no problem as you can order a move command and cancel your queue. But you get in a disadvantage where the enemy will find you unarmed, he will disable you and kick your ass.

On the other hand, if the target you dagon’ed on is in sight and in range of dagon, you will dagon him and blink to the place to queued to, in a split second. Always consider the dark side too.
If you didn’t understand, read the next section which will show how to use the shift button and then move back to this example.

III. How to shift queue

You can do shift queue by ordering commands while pressing shift. Go to single player mode, select your hero, press shift and hold it and order move commands, you will observe small flags at the place where you have targeted, this indicates that your hero has been ordered to move there after he completes his previous action/order, which in this case is the move command.
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This is exactly what shift queuing in the grass root level is. Now let us see some application

IV. Techniques

(IV.I) Tower Technique

Step 1: Teleport to your tower. (Click on your teleport scroll or Boots of travel and then click again where you want to teleport, the usual thing you do)

Step 2: While you are teleporting, press shift and order a move command (Right click in front of the tower while holding shift) in front on the tower

You will notice that a flag kind of thing appears where you ordered him to move, this means your action is queued or sequenced to happen just after the teleport completes. You will see that after the teleport completes, your hero moves in front of the tower (where you targeted) without wasting time. This can be really important in some situations. Before moving any further, practice the tower technique at least 5 times before moving to the next lesson.

(IV.II) Tango Juking Technique/Rune Bottle Pickup Technique

@This technique gives you a boost in your juking skills. You can seemingly walk right through trees, well not really, you use tangoes on trees and with shift queue to eat the next tree which is beside the tree you ate at first, you won’t get collided with trees and this can help you juke because trees block vision. This will save you some time to use your teleport scroll or other escape mecha. You can abuse it in many other ways too. Be creative.

Step 1: Press shift, click on tango. Your cursor becomes a crosshead. Now target a tree. You will see that a flag appears on the tree you targeted and the crosshead cursor disappears and your hero starts moving towards the tree
Step 2: While still holding shift, click on tango and target another tree just beside the first one. Leave shift now.
You will notice that after eating the first tree, your character immediately moves forward and eats the second one. Well it is not just that this trick is limited to the second tree, you can eat multiple trees as long as you have the tangoes.

@Similar thing is done in rune picking. Click on bottle, click on rune, press shift and order a move command. You will move without stopping to pick the rune

(IV.III) Shift-Queuing Items

Shift-queuing items is tough, but a piece of cake if you practice enough. Reading my guide would cut off some hours and save some time from your practicing session. This technique will be primarily used when you are teleporting. This is because while teleporting, you get 3-4 seconds which you are going to use as the time for shift-queuing your item. Please note that it can be used with any hero, not just with the heroes I mentioned.

Example :

I am Shadow Fiend, The items in my inventory are like this -

Now you see that’s a lot of actives. I find a centaur farming at mid and I decide to kill him. Here’s how I use shift-queue for the task.

Step 1: I use BoT on a creep near the centaur

Step 2: This is where shift comes to use, I hold shift then I left click on bkb, then left click on ethereal blade and left click on centaur, then left click on dagon and left click on centaur and at last, I left click on dagger and left click near the centaur and press R (This is the hotkey for requiem of souls).

If you manage to do all this within 4 seconds, what happens, will be this-

As soon as you teleport, you will be in avatar mode (from bkb), you will have used ethereal blade on centaur, dagon’ed him, blinked next to him and channeled your requiem of souls. Well that will happen in a split second of time. You must be getting the idea now how useful this really is. Here's a screenshot.

(IV.IV) Pudge Force Staff Trick (1800 ranged meathook)

Note: Force staff is required to use this trick
Note 2: This trick doesn’t work with meathook level 1, but will work with meathook level 2 and above.

Yeah, there's something special for pudge fans. Using shift, you can EXTEND your meathook by 600 distance using your force staff. This technique is very tough when using in real games, so practice this a lot in single player first. You need proper positions and a good handwork with shift key to use it. You need to order everything in about 1.5 seconds when you want to hook a hero (when you are chasing the hero). Also, you need fast hands to pull this one out. So here’s how you do it –

Step 1: Order a move command, as you are practicing, order your hero to move a good deal of distance like from your base to your bottom tower (in sentinel)

(Do the next steps before pudge reaches his ordered destination)

Step 2: Press shift, select meathook (Hotkey T) and left click somewhere
Step 3: Don’t leave shift yet, now left click on force staff and left click on your hero (or your hero’s image in your console)
You can leave shift now.

You will launch an extended hook with range 1800 (with meathook level 4) almost every time. Also, it requires very good positioning and you will have to judge where the hero will be after you launch your hook. Practice this A LOT before you try it out somewhere because it is tougher than other techniques.

V. CONCLUSION